Sarah earned her BS in Marine Biology from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, with a secondary focus in Environmental Economics. As an undergraduate, she interned with the Shark Lab for two years and in that time completed a thesis on shark reproductive biology using the labs legacy data, fostering her passion for hands-on research and elasmobranch husbandry. Sarah now works in the Shark Lab as a husbandry and research assistant, helping support ongoing studies on the behavior and sensory systems of Hawaii’s shark species. She is especially interested in how sharks experience and interact with their environment, and how understanding their behavior, sensory biology, and reproductive patterns can support effective, science-based conservation.